Feeling Blue, bit squashed in here Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
By mineemo on 19-Jul-15. Waypoint GC5ZK73

Seems this has gone missing. When I get a chance I will go for a look, but it might be a while off

We couldn't find it, we looked and look but still had lots of fun the kids mum landed on her bottom a few times lol

Dnf

Owner needs to check this one out. Lots of DNFs.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

GPS and terrain not on good terms. Nothing found, but neat little reserve.

No find for me either. Was the cache camoflaged as rubbish and cleaned away?

Couldn’t find it. God jumping around. I’m new to this so not great at it yet.

enjoyed a wee walk in here as many tracks to choose but NO LUCK for me as GPS jumping under tree's.

Out with Lil sis on a sunny winters morning. Phone GPS not happy in trees. Note to self - wear better climbing shoes next time.

Great hide and area to explore, log very wet

Co-ordinates were a little out for me and no TB . But easily found. Logbook is nearly full and very damp. TFTC.

Yay

Easy find

Very sneaky, good to find finally

Today, It being a non-shopping day, along with the fact that we were meant to be 200kms away out East Cape (but weren't due to the weather at the end of last week), we spent the day collecting a few caches around Rotorua to see a bit of different countryside and make the most of the fine weather that had come out to play.
Setting off from home at 6.30am (nice early start with the good wife) and a quiet drive over here. So it was a concentration on caches we could get to, that weren't roped off as the lake level was too high, and only involved a short walk, as didn't want to leave "wifey" with the car too long as she might leave without me and say "Bugger You" and the caches.

Managed to grab 27 of 27 today which was more than happy as it has left enough to come back to in the future. This was the tenth of the day and a nice quick find following some breakfast at the "Fat Dog". Nice cache and a short bash up to it soon had it in hand, so emptyied out all the water and set back in its location.
Although did get myself in the poo by offering to stop for antiques at Tirau on the way back [^], but then informed that as its Easter Sunday all shops are closed and that is the only reason I would offer to stop for a shop, as if

Thanks for the placement and bringing me to this location

GPS on today. Tftc

Nice easy find, once the GPS found a satellite.

Log book a bit wet. Good spot tftc.

This was a simple find today. Bit wet inside but waterproof paper so should be OK. Tftc

Easy to find. But the gps was off haha. So still took some time because we were going in the wrong direction :p. Beustiful little park! TFTC

Missed this one a little while back. Found no issues today. Always the case

**#10,900**
In Rotorua for a FTF attempt but failed at that so thought we'd carry on and rack up some numbers to get the year rolling.
No feeling blue for us, bit of a mission finding the right tracks but luckily an easy find for our 10,900th find as the sun was about to set.......
TNLN TFTC

#8790. Went for a short walk in Tihi Road Reserve in Springfield this afternoon. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Had to widen the search area a bit, and found it about 11 metres away. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. But unfortunately, Craehenfeld geht um die Welt was not in the cache. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for bringing us to the site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

Nice one

Quick find today. Nice hide. TFTC

Ha ha my phone gps didn't like the trees. Had to search further to find. Thanks for bringing us here

Found all good including big fat slimy tiger snail who had made it's self at home lol thank s Dclan for a nice we cache and walk in the park

Gps went crazy in the trees so were looking in the completely wrong place until we decided to start over then was easy. TFTC

Tftc

A quick easy cache here. We took the trackable will drop on our travels next week TFTC

Out and about with Team Welsh collecting caches before leaving for our return to Auckland. T4tc

TB Dropped off

Last morning in Rotorua so Pagenz and I made an early morning trip out before having to head home. Nice little wander along here. TFTC

01/10/16 19:00 Dot Day. Daylight Savings is the end of feeling blue about night caching. Can't say the same about the weather but at least today was one of the few non-rainy days in the last month or so. Weirdly enough, saw loads of kiwi-blue (and the like) bottles around GZ. Closer inspection proved many of them to be bongs... guess the locals like to get high outdoors...

Not sure if cache is in its original position as GZ 9 - 11m out. I stopped being stumped when I found it though. Then the rain started, so walk cut short... Thanks for the exercise, Cheers, GC.

Had some business in Rotorua this afternoon and once that was finished decided I'd grab a few caches in and around town, with a bit of a focus on a few particular caches a bit further out from central, before heading back to Hamilton via Tokoroa. Managed to find all bar one that I attempted, getting home about 10pm and finding about a dozen caches.

Passed this one while heading to another to grab it on the way back. The GPS was bouncing a lot with the tree and cloud cover so resorted to expanding my search area to locate the cache. Took a little while for to spot the cache which turned out had been muggled, as it was spread around GZ. Found the log, the container and some swag within a 1m dia. from where the cache looked like it was hiding. Replaced in it's likely spot and covered. Hopefully the muggler won't be back.

Find #3 for the evening.

Up hill and down dale as we made our way 'off piste' to this cache, but found it no trouble. It was wet inside, but the waterproof log and container just needed a good wipe out and all was good again.

On our school holiday adventure checking out more of the good things around Rotorua. After a morning at the luge we wanted a bit of a walk before we headed further south. A scramble through the under growth & there was the squashed blue!

Log very wet.

Tftc

have logged this cache as part of 12-12-12: A Challenge? http://coord.info/GC42CNY

Another quick find on a windy winter day

Took some hunting, and was about to check the spoiler picture when I spotted the hide. Cheers.

Off to Hamilton today. Ice on the car in Rotorua, Brrr.

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Tftc chea bol.

Great hide. Thank god for spoiler photos. Tftc

Took a bit of poking Round.
Cheers

This one was tricky to find but i did it. Yay. TFTC

Tis be a more difficult treasure hunt than expected. Me magic compass sent us further up the hill than it were, N Yer could say it had me crew and me stumped for an age. Eventually we found the scurvy devil, HAH! TFTC

Took a while, Got it!

(1827) Holidaying in the area and had time to collect a few caches in Rotorua. Went for a walk with a few friends to collect these ones, TFTC

Loggt as cg3, 3 cachinggirls on NZ-Tour, greetings from Austria tftc

On tour in NZ! To safe time and space we signed with CG3 ( caching girls 3)!
Tftc and greetings from Austria

logged as CG3, thanks for the Cache!

Had the grandsons searching for awhile but came up trumps. TFTC

My 5 year old found this 1

Thanks, nice tidy hide

On the way,
great walk
tftc

took a bit of finding in the bush.

As we were approaching GZ the GPS batteries died so we used our caching sense and found the cache nicely camouflaged and hidden Great hide.

On a bit of a geocaching trip away with Just-Lookin & Princess Emily.
We soon found the cache.

SL Thanks for the fun find!

On a short trip with tmann421 and Princess-Emily.

Another quick find here.

TFTC and adding to the fun of our trip

On a road trip with Just-Lookin and tmann421.

TFTC and the fun.

nice area to go caching tftf aroha and happy caching

It was great

Found with Katgotya on the 14th, logged together. Tftc

Hard to find, easily found within the hour....

Phewwwww bushwacking much!!

So many tracks in this reserve...took a while to work out where I should be...but them found cache easily. Tftc

yayy!! brazil here

Went up and down a few hills to find this one. Could do with some H2O

Went up and down a few hills to find this one. Could do with some H2O

Bit more bushwacking.lol we like to take the hard ways. Tftc.

Bit more bushwacking.lol we like to take the hard ways. Tftc.

Bit more bushwacking.lol we like to take the hard ways. Tftc.

Nice easy find! Beautiful little spot in the reserve

Quickly spotted the hide from about 10m away. Nice park could hear the birds chirping tftc

It was cool

Nice find thanks

This is a difficult find, unless you already know where it is. Among the trees the GPS struggles and it was a 'torturous' amble, as GZ was narrowed down. Once near GZ the hide was quick to spot, but this is not a one star difficulty cache, as the find is not just the last two metres, but the whole experience. This was the hardest of the set of four caches in this area. Still, the forest is pretty and enjoyable. TFTC mineemo.

Out picking up a few before dinner

Tftc

Decided that these caches would be a good way to finish my first sweep of Rotorua to clear the new caches. I have made a good dent in them and have done about 20 odd today. A lot for me and I don't know how a few other cachers do heaps more in a day. This is my limit! Not sure I took the right track but needed a bit of bush bashing to get there but no plants were harmed Spotted something a bit different and soon had the cache in hand - no time to be blue today TFTC

Still no dogs around so made it easier. Nice place for a walk

Circles,and up and down and spin around and around!
Spotted something not to far away, and went to investigate it.
Youngest put a pirate coin in,as he did extraction.
Cheers
~G

Easier than first thought

Eagle spotting by Ladda saw us scramble up the bank and quickly nab this one before heading on to the next! TFTC

Around and around in circles for this one. Tftc

Dot Day... Day 10: The continuing adventure to log 50 caches on consecutive days (A 50-Day caching streak)... On this mission with Gap (of Fap and Gap).

The rain is back in town... Gap and I were determined to clean up this last cache in Tihi Reserve, and a bit of water wasn't going to stop us...

We found a suitable park and sloshed down the rain-soaked path. At first, the iPhone gps struggled under the conditions. However, it eventually settled and began to consistently point toward one location. A glance in that direction and we spotted the tell-tale sign of a hide. The coordinates were pretty good for us, so we managed to stay quite dry under the circumstances. TFTC.

This entry was edited by squirrel nutcase on Friday, 11 September 2015 at 10:55:25 UTC.

5.10pm - Weren't stumped on this one. Co Ords good. SLTFTC

In town today to test out some new bikes for work so once that was finished I had time to find some caches.
This one had me walking around in circles, up and down, back and fourth. Eventually I spotted something and made a well earned find.
TFTC

A short stint of geocaching with sveppi before heading back out of town, on a mild Sunday afternoon. We initially walked past this one as we apparently took the wrong path. We thought of coming back for this one after finding the 4th in the reserve, but muggles at number 4 meant we turned back to find this one while waiting for them to leave. Quickly noticed which bit of this part of forest was amiss, found the cache right where I expected. Thanks.

With fanfan-77 on a short Sunday afternoon geocaching walk in the reserve. This is a lovely area with lot's of Tui's. Had to negotiate a path or two but once close an easy find. TFTC

After lots of big splashes in the huge muddy holes around, our little one was keen to find a treasure... This is my favourite type of cache to find too! We had a scramble up but could see straight away what we were looking for... O lifted it up and was so pleased to find his favourite treasure inside - a Hot wheels car!! We left behind some little hand crafted goodies Thank you for the cache!

Tftc

Tftc

Continuing on our way through the park we hadn't a clue where we were heading, arrived at GZ and quickly spotted a likely hiding spot. A closer look produced the cache. Nice hide. TFTC.

A great clever hide enjoying a nice walk

A good hide well done. TFTC

This entry was edited by Frewilys on Saturday, 08 August 2015 at 07:22:20 UTC.

Like the clue.

Out for a walk in my old stomping grounds.

Loved this one & the claustrophobic guardian. Left him in place, though our 3 yr old would have loved to take him home with us. We took the more challenging route to get to this one and picked up a bit of trash on the way. I once met the man who had helped plant many of the trees here over 50 yrs ago. Thanks minemo!

Awesome reserve! Easy find

Clever hide, gps settled well. Thanks for the cache